10:00am to 12:00pm

“I don’t want to go to school,” said the 8-year-old after an extended weekend.

These are typical statements of anxious children, leaving parents at times wondering how to respond. Reassurance and empowering statements may help some children, yet others may only feel misunderstood and angry given the same responses. This program will focus on the nature of anxiety and how parents can help their children navigate normal childhood and adolescent anxiety. It will also address when anxiety could approach criteria of an anxiety disorder and what parents can do. Parents will learn about some of the standard treatments for clinical anxiety disorders for children and adolescents and how they can be an integral part of the treatment plan. A Powerpoint lecture will be interspersed with experiential exercises that parents can do with children and adolescents to relieve anxiety, and will conclude with a series of small group discussion topics.

Presenter: Anne Marie M. Ramos, LCSW, RPT-S, has worked in New York and New Jersey for over 34 years as a clinical social worker and a clinical supervisor for families and children. She has an extensive background in play therapy and is a Registered Play Therapist–Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy. She is the author of Parents as Healers: Bringing the Caregiver into the Healing Process Through Play and Home-Based Strategies (August 2017), available on Amazon. She currently Director of Children’s Services of Jewish Family Service and Children’s Center in Clifton, N.J.

Sunday, February 11, 2018 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Join local filmmaker Mary Collura for a screening ofEncapsulate, a short documentary film that focuses on the central part of the Warwick Village Sesquicentennial and the August 2017 opening of the 1967 time capsule buried 50 years previously.

Monday, February 12, 2018 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

(2006) Starring Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer and Laurence Fishburne. This is the inspirational story of Akeelah Anderson, an eleven-year-old girl from south Los Angeles with a gift for words. Despite the objections of her mother, Akeelah enters various spelling contests, for which she is tutored by the forthright Dr. Larabee, her principal Mr. Welch and the proud residents of her neighborhood. Akeelah's aptitude earns her an opportunity to compete for a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee and, in turn, unites her neighborhood who witness the courage and inspiration of one amazing little girl. Rated PG; 112 min.